The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-10-13

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THE REGULAR RAILROAD HORROR.
Another railroad crime and horrible
murder occurred on Tues.
day morning last about 5 or 6 O'Clock.
near Kouts Stati"n, Indiana, on the
Chicago and Atlantic railroad. The
station is 50 to go miles east of Chica-
90 and the train was passenger due
in Chicago in the morning. The train
was stopping ut u water tank, when a
fast freight came laundering after
it and crashed into and telescoped the
rear cars. The sleeper. one report
says. Was made hinge catapult to de-
lnolish the forward cars. The cars, of
course. As they nearly always do, took
tire, and num3er were roasted alive.
S"me twenty persons are reported
killed and thirty to forty wounded.
The severeSt penalty ever inflicted
for the violation of the prOllibtOry
liqu"r law has been applied to u drug
glst "f Wichita, Kansas. lie gets sew
~nteen years and four months IN Jail.
aud is required to pay u fine of twenty
thousand eight hundred dollars. Tie
ln.n plead guilty to All Indictment
containing two Thousand aid eighty
counts.-Spirit Lake Beacon.
This is another case where the
courts, juries, and the whole machin-
Fry Of society become mere instruments
of torture and spite to execute the
prrjudices of a fanatical element. We
believe in enforcing and Obeying law,
hut in the above case, rs in many sim
liar ones, the punishment is enormous
ly and outrageously disproportioned to
the offence. The men who can infict
such punishment upon brother man
for such an offence are AS savage and
nnmerciful as brutes and utterly unfit
to administer the law.
OF q like nature, are those cases
where men are entrapped and sent to
the penitentiary for the mere utter
ance of sentiments. or for sending let
ters or papers through the mails, where
the intent was not evil.
1t is not only the wrongs growing
ont of monopoly and the wages system
which are breeding anarchists. The
creating of ten thousand petty crimes
by the foolish law makers and then
leaving prejudice to brutally punish
them, is doing much to exasperate the
people. A day of reckoning is coming,
It looks as if A. p. Miller was to
hold the fort alone again. Well, lie
deserves the credit of having stuck to
WOrtlIington through thick and thin
and lIe is entitled to saying II told
you sO." for he is generally pretty cor
rect; if he only would keep his paper
from being Il sectarian publication he
would do Obly.-WOrthington Core
spondence Adrian Guardian.
This correspondent should have put
''anti" before the word ''sectarian,"
for if the ADVANCE is anything in the
world it is anti-sectarian.
But truce to all this, whether re-
ligious, political or personal. The
ADVANCE is a journalistic, a financial,
u business, a political, literary sue
cess. The present editor made it so
in spite of all efforts to down it. Open
warfare and silent contempt" have
alike failed to dislodge it, as have also
personal slander, scandal and insult.
Now that the ADVANCE is sure to
have the field all to itself again, we
wish to say to friend and foe alike,
''now is your opportunity" We have
urgent ''calls" to 60 elsewhere and do
better and more congenial work, and
the ADVANCE can be had and be put
into such hands as will unite the COM
Inunity around it and make 1t sure
that a second paper will not be at
tempted here for years to come. The
ADVANCE ls a good-paying property
now and can he made still better in
other and proper hands.
The editors of Pipestone, after de-
voting columns to help make the fair Il
success. walked up like bankers or mil.
liOnaires. and paid their money to get
jnsid:. tie fair grounds. Editors in
Pipestone, in cases like this, are as
good rs any one, and entitled to the
same rights and privileges-if they pay
for 'em. In other words, the fair off,
cials did not give them ''comps."-
Pipestone Republican.
Well. that is not much to brag on.
We did the same at our fair besides do
ing the printing at about half rates.
Help the young fairs along.
See the adv. Of the St. Paul Globe in
another column. The Globe now leads
all competitors west of Chicago AZ q
newspaper. What the World 10 to
New York, the Times to Chicago and
the Enquirer to Cincinnati, the Globe
is to St. Paul and the Northwest. The
Republican journals must look to their
)aurels and their subscription lists.
The Democratic journals are now lead.
ing them AZ great newspapers univers-
ally read.
The reception given to President and
Mrs. Cleveland by st. Paul and Mime
apolis was unique and gorgeous as i,
was warm and hearty. When Cleve.
land gets back he will wonder how any
Eastern man could ever get to be Pres
ident anyhow.
There are 525 Farmers Alliances in
Dakota, and % of these are in Mime
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